Most Popular Schools for Petroleum Engineering Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the design, development and operational evaluation of systems for locating, extracting, processing and refining crude petroleum and natural gas, including prospecting instruments and equipment, mining and drilling systems, processing and refining systems and facilities, storage facilities, transportation systems, and related environmental and safety systems.

Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
1	University of Houston	309	3%	$23,225
2	Texas A & M University-College Station	298	2%	$29,506
3	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College	210	3%	$30,360
4	Colorado School of Mines	202	14%	$35,498
5	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus	168	3%	$29,097
6	University of Tulsa	136	12%	$59,725
7	West Virginia University	132	2%	$23,294
8	Texas Tech University	125	2%	$24,472
9	University of Louisiana at Lafayette	124	4%	$25,922
10	The University of Texas at Austin	122	1%	$26,506
11	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	122	1%	$36,652
12	Missouri University of Science and Technology	111	4%	$22,440
13	Montana Technological University	85	16%	$22,603
14	University of Wyoming	82	3%	$19,960
15	Marietta College	72	24%	$50,154
16	University of Southern California	67	0%	$74,825
17	University of Kansas	62	1%	$26,566
18	New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology	59	15%	$22,410
19	The University of Texas of the Permian Basin	52	5%	$20,890
20	University of North Dakota	44	1%	$22,091
21	Texas A & M University-Kingsville	30	1%	$23,285
22	University of Alaska Fairbanks	21	2%	$20,281
23	University of Utah	15	0%	$24,472
24	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	13	0%	$33,503
25	Mississippi State University	11	0%	$24,957
26	Stanford University	5	0%	$71,587
27	Oklahoma State University-Main Campus	5	0%	$24,105
28	Saint Francis University	2	0%	$53,700

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Petroleum Engineering program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.